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KENYA/ZIMBABWE - An operation across Eastern and Southern Africa targeting a range of cross-border crimes has resulted in the rescue of human trafficking victims, the seizure of drugs, guns and stolen vehicles and the recovery of smuggled goods including ivory and diamonds.Codenamed Usalama – which means ‘safety’ – the operation was led by the Eastern Afr...

LYON, France – Ministers and other senior officials from Senegal, Sudan and Togo were updated on INTERPOL’s global tools and services during a visit to the world police body’s General Secretariat headquarters.Minister of Interior of Senegal, Pathé Seck and Sudan’s Minister of the Interior, Ibrahim Hamid, met with INTERPOL’s Secretary General Ronald K. Nob...

KHARTOUM, Sudan – Sharing effective methods to fight human trafficking and migrant smuggling was the focus of an INTERPOL training workshop which brought together 25 participants from 10 East African countries.The aim of the three-day workshop (12-14 December) in Sudan was to strengthen law enforcement cooperation in the fields of trafficking in human bei...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Police officers from Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen have taken part in the first ever Arabic session of the INTERPOL Mobile Police Training Programme (IMPTP).The three-week course (5 – 23 March) was held in partnership with the Naif Arab University for Security Sciences, covered a range of issues re...

KHARTOUM, Sudan – Top police officials from East African countries have been meeting in Khartoum to identify ways&nbsp;of increasing law enforcement capacity to enhance regional and international co-operation against crime and public safety threats such as terrorism and maritime piracy, as well as trafficking in human beings, drugs and weapons.The two-day...

LYON, France – Identifying ways to further enhance co-operation between Sudan and INTERPOL in combating national and transnational crime was the focus of a visit by the police chief to the world police body’s headquarters today. Discussions between Director General of the Sudan Police Forces, First Lieutenant General Hashim Osman Al-Hussein Saad and Secre...

LYON, France – At the request of Sudanese authorities, INTERPOL has issued an international security alert, or Orange Notice, following the escape of four dangerous prisoners sentenced to death for the murder of a US aid official and his driver.One Sudanese police officer was killed and another injured in an exchange of fire when the men attempted to pass...